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...Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
...prices jumping at an average rate of 3% a month. Last week Peron finally changed course and-began to face the facts. In a somber speech to the nation he proclaimed a program of "inflexible austerity," of sacrifice, of less food and more work. For the famed Republic of Beef, the meatless day announced four weeks ago had seemed almost like a joke in poor taste. Now Peron decreed two meatless days each week, and to make the rule stick, he ordered butcher shops to shut down. Packing plants will also close one day a week, and on another...
...action capped a series of disturbing events touched off a month ago, when OPS discovered that Illinois racketeers were making fat profits by selling horse meat (ceiling price 14?) at the 59? ceiling for ground beef. Charles W. Wray was fired as boss of the state's Division of Food and Dairies after confessing that he had accepted some $3,500 in bribes from the racketeers. Since then, nine of Wray's inspectors have been fired and four restaurants closed down. Five separate investigations are under way, and two grand juries will soon get into the act. This...
Empty Bank Vaults. The consequences to Western defense are immense and progressive ; they would be disastrous but for a relatively mild winter. But British families do without meat because there is not enough coal to swap for Argentine beef; French steel mills stand idle for lack of coal and coke. The Dutch army all but disappeared over the holidays, when the government gave its soldiers an eleven-day furlough to save precious coal. Sweden sells its high-grade iron ore to Communist Poland instead of supplying its old customer Britain, because the Poles can trade coal in exchange, the British...
...skilled workers, 4) poor agricultural organization and 5) inefficient general management. These ailments cannot be cured, he said, by indiscriminately handling out dollars (Spanish officials would like about $300 or $400 million). "Spain will never die of starvation, but she can die of indigestion if we give her more beef than she can chew...